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Research project

Rolling PPARC grant

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nils Andersson

Professor of Applied Maths

Research interests

  • General relativistic astrosphysics
  • Black holes
  • Neutron stars
Connect with Nils

Email: N.A.Andersson@southampton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor James Vickers

Connect with James

Email: J.A.Vickers@soton.ac.uk

Professor Carsten Gundlach

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical general relativity
  • Numerical relativity
  • Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse
Connect with Carsten

Email: C.J.Gundlach@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ian Jones

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave astronomy
  • Neutron stars
  • Radio pulsars
Connect with Ian

Email: D.I.Jones@soton.ac.uk

Professor Leor Barack

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Classical General Relativity
  • Gravitational waves
  • Black Holes
Connect with Leor

Email: L.Barack@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ian Hawke

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Numerical relativity
  • Neutron Stars
  • Gravitational waves
Connect with Ian

Email: I.Hawke@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

We focus on mathematical modelling and mathematical physics, and investigate everything from neutron stars to superfluids.

Research outputs

Oscillations of rapidly rotating stratified neutron stars
A. Passamonti, B. Haskell, N. Andersson, D.I. Jones & I. Hawke, 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 394(2), 730-741
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14408.x
Type: article
Erratum: modelling magnetically deformed neutron stars
B. Haskell, L. Samuelsson, K. Glampedakis & N. Andersson, 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 394(3), 1711
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14151.x
Type: article
Generic behaviour of nonlinear sound waves near the surface of a star: smooth solutions
Carsten Gundlach & Colin Please, 2009, Physical Review D, 79(6)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.067501
Type: article
Axial quasi-normal modes of neutron stars: accounting for the superfluid in the crust
Lars Samuelsson & Nils Andersson, 2009, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26(15), 155016
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/26/15/155016
Type: article
Gravitational self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit of a Schwarzschild black hole
L. Barack & N. Sago, 2009, Physical Review Letters, 102(19), 1-4
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191101
Type: article